Peninsula.com, May 19 (Reporter Sun Tiejing) Recently, Ms. Song, a 70-year-old hip pain patient, underwent hip replacement surgery at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University. The total medical expenses were more than 28,000 yuan. Paying more than 6,900 yuan out of pocket, the personal burden is greatly reduced. For the same surgery and consumables, before April 30 this year, the individual will pay more than 17,000 yuan. This is due to the fact that the second batch of high-value medical consumables organized by the state, the centralized procurement of artificial joints, landed in our city on April 30.
At present, the technology and consumables for artificial joint replacement surgery are very mature. Through surgery, it can effectively eradicate pain and restore function for patients. However, in the past, the price of consumables was relatively expensive, often 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, which was unaffordable for some families. The sharp drop in the price of artificial joints has made it affordable for ordinary people and greatly benefited patients.
It is understood that there are many products selected in the national artificial joint centralized procurement, which basically meet more than 90% of the use needs of medical institutions, cover mainstream products of domestic and imported enterprises, and can meet the medical needs of the people. Do a good job in the connection of medical insurance payment policies, mainly to guide the masses to use the selected products, and medical institutions and doctors to scientifically and rationally choose appropriate products.
With the implementation of the national centralized procurement of artificial joints, the average price of selected products dropped by 82%. The joints bid farewell to the “ten thousand yuan era”. In this centralized procurement work, 16 medical institutions in Qingdao participated in the procurement. In the first year, the intention to purchase 5,705 sets will save an annual cost of 156 million yuan. It is estimated that more than 5,700 hip and knee patients will benefit from it.